Inside psychology a science over 50 years
Psychology is a comparatively young science. From its origins in the psychophysics laboratories of late 19th century Germany, it made great strides throughout the 20th century, and can now be considered one of the most rapidly growing of the sciences, as evidenced by the enormous growth at both unde...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798202806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The ups and downs of cognitive psychology: attention and other 'executive functions'; 2 Psychology in the 1950's: a personal view; 3 Learning theory and the cognitive revolution, 1961-1971: a personal perspective; 4 Face recognition in our time; 5 Cognitive science now and then; 6 Ageing memory: ageing memories; 7 Psycholinguistics in our time; 8 Two brains-my life in science; 9 A perception of perception; 10 Social psychology in our time: from 'fun and games' to grown-up science; 11 Thirty years of object recognition; 12 Reasoning; 13 Weber's Law
- 14 Fifty years of neuropsychological memory research. The score: methods 5-theory 215 Mental chronometry: long past, bright future; 16 A life in grey areas: cognitive gerontology from 1957 to 2007; 17 From little slips to big disasters: an error quest; 18 Visual perception 1950-2000; 19 Human performance: from then to now; 20 The perception of time; 21 From effects to systems in neuropsychology; 22 Experimental psychopathology and psychological treatment; Index;
